Author(s)

Xia Li ^1,2, Huiju Luo ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ Accounting School, Anhui University of Finance and Economics, Bengbu, Anhui, China
² School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui Province, China

Corresponding Author

Huiju Luo

ABSTRACT

The spread of COVID-19, a public health emergency, not only causes huge losses to the society, but also has many adverse effects on people's physical and mental health, such as panic, anxiety, anxiety and other psychological problems. These effects have also spread to higher education. The emergence and continuous development of the new coronavirus pneumonia has had a huge impact on university teaching. In response to "suspend classes without stopping learning", colleges and universities have adopted online teaching methods. The impact of the epidemic on students' psychology has greatly influenced the online teaching effect in colleges and universities. This paper aims to research how the psychological changes of college students during the epidemic influence the effect of online teaching. This paper choose some colleges and universities in Anhui Province as the research object, conducts a questionnaire survey on college students' satisfaction with online teaching under the background of the epidemic. The students surveyed include junior college students, undergraduates and professional full-time postgraduates and academic full-time postgraduates. We summarizes, organizes, and compares the questionnaire data and then according to the data analyzes the effect of psychological changes on teaching satisfaction. Long-term home isolation and closed management have caused negative psychological changes in students. Their psychological changes are mainly reflected in: panic, the spread of anxiety, and the significant increase in the prevalence of depression. Such internal psychological changes will be subtly reflected in external behaviors, making online teaching less effective, and ultimately leading to low satisfaction with online teaching. The survey results show that both college students and graduate students generally have low satisfaction with online teaching during the epidemic. Students are dissatisfied with online teaching mode, communication mode and teaching facilities to varying degrees. The learning environment and learning methods of college students has great changes during the epidemic.  That leads to college students have psychological anxiety, fear and even depression symptoms. This paper finds that the students in negative psychological state will reduce the quality and effect of online teaching. In response to such phenomena, this paper proposes four optimization paths and suggestions for raising the quality of online teaching in colleges and universities. We should form joint efforts between schools and families and building an all-round education system, improve the hardware and software facilities to form a sound and mature teaching pattern, improve the level of teachers and strengthen the whole process of the teaching system, and strengthen mental health education and create a positive atmosphere to improve education satisfaction in colleges and universities.

KEYWORDS

Online teaching; teaching satisfaction; psychological change

CITE THIS PAPER

Xia Li, Huiju Luo, The Effect of Improving Online Teaching Quality on Alleviating Students' Psychological Anxiety During the Epidemic. Advances in Educational Technology and Psychology (2022) Vol. 6: 103-112. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/aetp.2022.060318.

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